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090 $aLC2330$b.M67 2007
100 1 $aMortenson, Greg.
245 10 $aThree cups of tea :$bone man's mission to promote peace -- one school at a time /$cGreg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.
246 3 $a3 cups of tea
260 $aNew York :$bPenguin Books,$c2007.
300 $a349 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill., maps ;$c22 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
500 $a"The Kiriyama Prize Winner" -- Cover.
520 $aOne man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time--Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban. In a region where Americans are often feared and hated, he has survived kidnapping, death threats, and wrenching separations from his wife and children. But his success speaks for itself--at last count, his Central Asia Institute had built fifty-five schools.--From publisher description.
650 0 $aGirls' schools$zPakistan.
650 0 $aGirls' schools$zAfghanistan.
650 0 $aHumanitarian assistance, American$zPakistan.
650 0 $aHumanitarian assistance, American$zAfghanistan.
600 10 $aMortenson, Greg.
700 1 $aRelin, David Oliver.
988 $a20070920
906 $0OCLC